| HORACE | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |
| SEALE | Activist who wrote "Seize the Time" |
| RHEUM | No trust in truth serum as it's a watery fluid, in the literary sense (5) |
| OVID | Roman poet who wrote of love in Ars Amatoria, myths in Metamorphoses and lamentations and sorrows of his exile in Tristia (4) |
| VIRGIL | 1st Century BC Roman poet who wrote the epic Aeneid, comprising 12 books in dactylic hexameter (6) |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet who wrote a collection of poems known as the Satires (7) |
| POILU | In France he serves to put no end of fuel in it (5) |
| SADDER | 'A ___ and a wiser man,/He rose the morrow morn' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) |
| ONAWING | "With our full crew aboard; And our trust in the Lord; We're coming in ... and a prayer" (2,1,4) |
| ONEORTWO | A couple of overs tore down madly, but put no opener in difficulty (3,2,3) |
| SAFE | "Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be ___" (Prov. |
| RESOUNDED | Rang loudly, worthy of trust in the long grass (9) |
| LEAR | "King ___" (play with the line "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf...") |
| AWOLF | "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of _ ___." Fool, in Shakespeare's King Lear |
| IDENTITY | Name of one with no trust initially in God? |
| STRATIFY | Disorderly at first, by end of day put into groups (8) |
| MARIGOLD | It's St David's Day, put on yellow flower (8) |
| INDEPENDENT | Free India from French writer's diatribe expressing no trust, for starters (11) |
| HETUP | G'day - put back start of tennis match (3,2) |
| OKBOOMER | Modern-day put-down popularized by a 2019 TikTok video |